Of Nature & Art

Guides.

Buying

Botanical art printsPaintings, illustration plates or posters. Eight places compared, and six painted bouquets from the collection.Bird and wildlife art printsAntiquarian plates, the great wildlife painters, contemporary originals or print-on-demand. Seven places compared, six birds from the collection.How to spot AI artSix checks that settle most listings, and where Etsy, Saatchi Art, Artfinder and Fine Art America stand.Where to buy art onlineSeventeen sites compared by a shop that sells it, with AI and returns policies noted.Nature art printsWhere to buy painted nature art by subject: botanical, birds and animals, gardens, land and water.No AI artThe rule, why it is absolute, and where other art sites stand.

Compared

Compared with Saatchi ArtSaatchi Art against Of Nature and Art: catalogue size, AI policy, print spec, returns and what each takes from artists.Compared with ArtfinderArtfinder bans AI art; so do we.Compared with SingulartSingulart against Of Nature and Art: the whole contemporary field at gallery prices, or one curated corner of it with archival prints from $49 beside the originals.Compared with Fine Art AmericaFine Art America against Of Nature and Art: ten million images on anything, or a small curated collection of nature painting on one etching paper with a strict no-AI rule.Compared with EtsyBuying art prints on Etsy against a curated collection: Etsy permits disclosed AI-generated work among millions of shops; here nothing is generated and the choosing is already done.Compared with DesenioDesenio makes affordable Scandinavian-style posters; we print paintings on etching paper.Compared with ArtsyArtsy sells through 4,000 partner galleries, fairs and auction houses; artists cannot list directly.

Prints

Giclée prints, explainedPigment ink on archival paper. What separates it from a poster, what the paper name tells you, and how editions and sizes work.German Etching or Photo RagBoth archival, both matte. One is textured alpha-cellulose, the other smooth cotton. Which suits paintings, which suits photographs.What size printTwo thirds to three quarters of the furniture's width, bottom edge 6 to 10 inches above it. Sizes for each wall.Framed or unframedFramed for a main wall you want done. Unframed if you have a framer, a frame you love, or a long way to ship.

Selling

Where to sell nature paintings onlineTen places to list a painting, with the fee to list, the commission, the AI rule and who curates.Saatchi Art commission40% on originals, 60% of print profit to you, free to list. What that buys and the math on one sale.Artfinder feesA monthly plan plus 40 to 45% of each sale, and a hard AI ban. The numbers and the math.Selling nature paintings onlineTen works, honest photos, a price per square inch, one page of facts, then the platforms.Prints of your paintingsCapture the painting, check the pixels, pick the paper, pick the lab. What a print shop looks for in a file.Getting cited by AIAnswer engines quote pages that state facts: name, medium, prices, place. Six things an artist page needs.